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Title: Grande Station, Los Angeles
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Publication Information: Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Santa Fe opened the Moorish-inspired La Grande railroad station, located on the corner of 2nd and Santa Fe, on July 29, 1893. It was used as a passenger terminal for Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. The station was damaged in the 1933 Long Beach earthquake, and was replaced by Union Station in 1939.
Exterior view of La Grande Station, the Moorish-inspired passenger terminal for Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. This view includes the station's center dome, which was damaged in the 1933 Long Beach earthquake and later removed.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;13 x 18 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00072453
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Transportation-Railroads-Stations-L.A.-Santa Fe Station
CARL0000077526
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/115247
Subject: La Grande Station (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Railroad stations--California--Los Angeles
Architecture--California--Los Angeles--Islamic influences
Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Source: Slade, Milton

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